The European Union has selected the ROBOX proposal as H2020 project. This project has 19 partners and will be coordinated by DSM Geleen. The proposal "ROBOX: Expanding the Industrial Use of Robust Oxidative Biocatalysts for the Conversion and Production of Alcohols" took first place in the selection.

ROBOX knows that training the next generation of research scientists in a broad range of skills is important for the future and this includes presenting to peers. This presentation was at the PGR conference in Manchester on the 15th of June by Michele Tavanti a PhD student in ROBOX at Manchester. The title was “From…

Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) are natural plastics rapidly compostable and biodegradable in the environment. These can replace the petrochemical products that we now use which are degrading our environment because of their persistance and danger to flora and fauna. These PHAs are not new – products based on these were first developed by the UK company ICI…

ROBOX PI who has worked in ROBOX on developing enzymes to make the building blocks for polymers gives an interesting talk on the problems of plastics in our environment and makes some suggestions how biobased materials can solve some of the problems. See presentation

The ROBOX members are presenting at the following upcoming conferences – c-LEcta GmbH will be at the Gordon Research Conference Biocatalysis and at the EMBO workshop “Enzymes, biocatalysis and chemical biology: At the new frontiers to present on the development of ADH and NOX for robust, selective and efficient oxidation reactions suitable for industrial processes.…

ROBOX at MEMEnginy Technological Fair. The Technological Fair MEMEnginy is organized by the UAB annually with the main aim to promote the contact between academia and companies and to promote the new technologies to build strategic synergies between companies and universities. This fair also has the objective to show future opportunities for students who are…

A paper “Unraveling the Molecular Determinants of Bee Sensitivity to Neonicotinoid Insecticides” describing collaborative work between Exeter University, Rothampstead and Bayer have shown that insecticides with very low impacts on bees is possible. This is due to cytochrome P450s of the CYP9Q subfamily determine bee sensitivity to neonicotinoids. Cytochrome P450s are one of the target…

Our ROBOX Bioengineering workshop proved a great success and was particularly helpful to people who want to scale-up reactions. If you want to learn more about this DTU will be doing similar events in the future. Please contact us using the form on our homepage.